INDEX 



467 



Hawks, 28 ; casting up feathers, 

 29 ; migration of, 1 2 1 ; do not 

 prey while cuckoo is heard, 162. 



Haws, a food for birds, 32; failure 

 of, 32. 



Haze, or smoky fog, 252. 



Hazel wych, 6. 



Heat, intense, 250; spoiling fruit, 

 250; effects of, on hybernating 

 animals, 186. 



Heathcock, formerly plentiful, 17. 



Heathfires, 20. 



Hedgehog, 67; food of, 67; spines 

 of, 68 ; young of, 67. 



Hedge-sparrow and the cuckoo, 

 1 1 1. 



Heliotropes, summer and winter, 

 208. 



Helleborus foetidus (stinking helle- 

 bore), 199, 387; vlridis (green 

 hellebore), 199, 388; niger, 201, 

 388 ; hellebores, order of bloom- 

 ing, 20 1 ; hy emails, 201, 388. 



Helleborine, 200, 395. 



Hempseed for birds, 39, 86. 



Hen harrier, 88, 412. 



Hen and horse, friendship of, 167 ; 

 and ducklings, 423. 



Hen, common, 206. 



Henry III. grants lands to Selborne 

 Prior)', 281. 



Heronry at Cressi Hall, 55, 57. 



Hills and mountains, moving, 209 ; 

 attracting clouds, 253. 



Himantopus, 219, 220. 



Hippoboscae hirundlnis, 135, 223. 



Hirundo hyberna, 75; rupestris, 75 ; 

 alpina, 77 ; melba, 77 ; esculenta, 

 151; riparia, 151 (see also 

 Swallow, Martin, and Swift). 



Hogmer, lake, 22. 



Hogs, age of, 182. 



Hollow lane leading to Alton, 1 1. 



Holt Forest, 19, 21,23; ironstone 

 in, 10; deer in, 18, 24. 



Holy Ghost Chapel, Basingstoke, 

 destruction of, 348. 



Home-made candles, 169. 



Honey-buzzard, 94, 408. 

 Honey-dew, 251, 446. 

 Hoopoe, 29. 



Hoopoes at Selborne, 29 ; migra- 

 tion of, 121. 

 Hops, 441 ; suitable soil for, 5 ; 



at Selborne, 14, 163. 

 Hornets, 431. 



Horns at Lord Pembroke's, 73. 

 Horse, botfly, 79 ; and hen, 400, 



431 ; friendship between, 167; 



should not be kept in solitude, 



1 66; anecdote of, 423. 

 Holticulture, spread of, 190. 

 House martins (see Martins, 



house); swallow (see Swallow, 



house). 

 Howe, General, machinery made 



by, 24. 



Humming in the air, 426. 

 Hunger, power of, 1 1 8, 126. 

 Hunting condemned by Bishop 



Wykeham, 306. 

 Hybernation of swallow, 26; swift, 



26. 

 Hypericum androsaemum (Tutsan, or 



St. John's wort), 200. 



Ichneumon fly, 432. 



Icthyology, 53. 



Icy speculae in the air, 249. 



Idiot boy and bees, 172. 



Incongruous companions, 127. 



Incubation of birds, ill. 



Indian grass, 56. 



Insectivorous birds, 408. 



Insect pests, 78, 79 ; appearing in 

 hot weather, 186; insensible to 

 sound, 194; hybernation of, 

 215; life of, 214; diffusion of, 

 225, 226; appearing in frosts, 

 246. 



Insects, 425. 



Instinct, 61, 131-2, 149, 231; ot 

 young animals, 180. 



Inundations rendering land poor, 

 184. 



Ireland and its natural history, 93. 



